Hey Frosting Friends!!

9yo DS class is starting a unit on the solar system, I tend to do a themed snack at alot of their units of study. I have seen a few ideas in the wilton yearbooks (ball pan planets) or mini ball pan type stuff. Any creative juices out their for depicting either the planets or the whole solar system??

Will need to feed about 30, Cake, cupcake and cookies are what I do best. Sock it to me!!!

Heather

all planets and sun as cupcake cakes (size of grouping in scale to planet depicted)

for sun would only do a quarter of it in upper or lower left corner of very BIG board (actually, I'd do the SS in parts, say Sun on one, Mercury, venus, Earth, Mars and asteroids belt on next (those asteroids could be mangled tootsie rolls -- see kittly litter box cake instructions for how to mangle), then jupiter and saturn (rings could be royal and stick up vertically) on next board, then Neptuen, Uranus, Pluto.

if really wanted to go big time...do whole thing to scale, including cupcake moons and then stretch it out across the class room or cafeteria. this would probably mean putting each planet and its moon(s) on separate boards.

doing it this second way also makes it a part of the lesson too...learn scale of the solar system, etc.

I recommend an 11x15 sheet cake with the solar system on it. Plus seeing 30 kids with black tongues sounds kinda funny!

oh yeah, the teachers will boot me out in a heartbeat

I found this awesome cake while searching, think it is a bit over the top for this class but if I could figure out how to simplify it a little and get the planets just right, what to use, etc. hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

How about downsizing it, do the tiered cake using smaller pans eg. 6 inch and the other planets on the outside, do them slightly smaller and on cupcakes?

How about a larger cake in the center done like the sun, surrounded by the planet cupcakes, throw the milky way in there and some comets for a few more cupcakes! Good Luck!

I think that is where I am leaning, need to design it on paper first, probly a 18 inch round, not sure about fondant or BC yet, with a 1/2 mini ball for the sun in cener (will do chocolate flames shooting out for height) will use a combo of gumballs and cupcackes for larger/smaller planets, will probably use fondant so I can paint on the ellipses they travel and some "stars". Hmmmmmmmm. Thanx guys, you always come through!!! Heather